Most read stories

The Actual Poets

14131413 views66 comments66 favs

And here’s a picture of you at the end of the line to the great toilet of fiction, waiting to relieve yourself, quick before the poetry gets to you. Or worse, the actual poets.

Meteorology

14131413 views1111 comments55 favs

Among the raindrops/ occasional plopping snowflakes.

The Old Man and the Cigarette

14131413 views55 comments00 favs

Flicking the cigarette into the river the man's face becomes soft, as if waving goodbye to the only real attachment that he has felt in decades.

Aftermath

14121412 views22 comments11 fav

Oh sweet, sweet morning light

Secure

14121412 views99 comments77 favs

This is the Minuteman tine/ of the three-tined fork// we can stick into the modern world/ when it’s done-- a MAD triad.

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

14121412 views77 comments88 favs

Herr Toad smokin'

To See Who's There

14121412 views88 comments88 favs

Able to search through centuries, I click, scribble, skim,resurrect wet stone walls, the smell of burning peat.Bob's your uncle; Peggy's your aunt.Name your family, child. My brother said helloto Uncle Shirley and Aunt Greg. I was more…

When Bad Things Happen To Other People

14121412 views44 comments22 favs

Years ago, I was involved in a freakish tragedy so startling and heartbreaking that it made the front page of not only my local newspaper, but “People” and “The National Enquirer.” I'm not going to tell you anything about it. This means that…

The Song of Jerome

14121412 views77 comments55 favs

"My love is with eggs!"

Homonyms

14121412 views33 comments44 favs

Ascent/Assent Together the horizon/ Catechism of love

Apex

14121412 views66 comments44 favs

You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.

The Road

14121412 views44 comments44 favs

we were traveling on wasn't necessarily going to go careening over any hill as fast as it was smashing into the blunt end of another cloudless hole like a cartoon cat chasing a cartoon mouse. It was huge like a stone wall that had its own…

From a Street-Lit Dark Room

14121412 views66 comments33 favs

Whenever trees or limbs fell in isolate forests—well, no narrators were ever to be found, not even beneath the larger tree trunks or under the fallen limbs.

PAPA'S TEARS

14121412 views55 comments11 fav

Darkness was fast approaching. I stuck out my tongue at Naya, and she reached out as if to grab…

it

14121412 views55 comments55 favs

where will we be/ when it happens?

Poem: The Two Week Vacation

14121412 views55 comments33 favs

The mother, a pony-tailed beauty, thinks she looks fat in her new blue-checked pedal pushers and white blouse tied under her full breasts— in the latest style.

Freedom

14121412 views77 comments77 favs

She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.

Breaking Point

14121412 views66 comments55 favs

I can do the hot coals, no problem. Or, your love, eyes closed. Or your sneer, spank, suffering, resentment, rejection.

Unexpected Flying Objects

14111411 views00 comments00 favs

Meanwhile it was four o'clock in the morning, Pacific time. Seven o'clock eastern. The cat was busy chasing imaginary mice around the hammock—at least Manuel hoped the mice were imaginary. He loaded the next digital images onto the screen. It seemed to

How Was Your Afternoon, Dear? 2

14111411 views77 comments55 favs

The pool deck was covered with the bloody footprints of resident gawkers.

Santa

14111411 views55 comments44 favs

Santa’s ruddy snoze/

Her last good year

14111411 views00 comments00 favs

“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so

Version - 2.0

14111411 views88 comments77 favs

Pale like a tracing of a memory

Rest Stop

14111411 views44 comments11 fav

Wicklow sat in the handicapped stall, pants down and straining, fed up to here with a world in which he couldn’t even take a decent crap.

Blue Baby

14111411 views88 comments77 favs

they taught art

Marks in the Sand (Poetry-Rhythm)

14111411 views11 comment11 fav

I am only ever What you seem to be Without the leverage Of sweet reality

Coming From Alabama

14111411 views00 comments00 favs

In the state that the stars fell on, Love and I stumbled upon bits of God where he forgot sky and moon, too.

OUT ON THE EDGE OF VICTORIAN CIVILIZATION

14111411 views00 comments00 favs

Lottie was a slim, fine looking woman. But Dale thought her breast implants were the worst case of overkill he had ever seen.

Washing the dishes...

14111411 views55 comments55 favs

There are certain items in the sink that are giving me an anxious feeling in my stomach.

Absinthe Drinking in a Bar in Paris

14111411 views22 comments00 favs

Half past six; already, through the gloom Saltwater flourish sifts from wharfs that ply Their play like girls that haunt the midnight's womb, As far it seems as walks of Barbary. Within the bar, French waitresses and sots Play dice with time awhile and rub…